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Do you want to manage your
drawings as simple as '123'? Use EDA!
Drawings archive
What is 'EDA'? EDA is a
personal drawing archive. Archive is a database that holds
references to drawings, thumbnails and attributes. EDA adds to
Consistent Software range of products a missing link - an
effective archive solution.
Design targets for EDA were: User Interface simplicity, Personal
use, Flexibility, Modern Technology. EDA's design proves that
all targets were achieved.
EDA collects and organizes drawings. It allows user to
manipulate any number of drawing archives. The archives can
contain AutoCAD drawings, scanned maps, digital photos, any kind
of imagery, and more. EDA lists drawings using filters from
stored rules to simplify manipulation of the drawings thus
helping you to find the right ones with ease. EDA can operate
with drawings of many different formats. Its embedded viewer can
efficiently display both vector and raster drawings stored in
the EDA archive.
A valuable part of EDA is a simple Plot Station solution. It
adds to the viewing capabilities of EDA allowing users to output
selected drawings to any printer/plotter installed in the
system.
Also, EDA was designed to be integrated with Consistent
Software's "scan-view-edit-print" solution called
RasterID. Combined, RasterID and EDA becomes the long awaited
solution for copy shops and scanning bureaus.
Using EDA
It is very easy to manage
drawings with EDA. Some few simple steps and you have digital
documents organized in very convenient way. You will find that
to use EDA as simple as '123'! All your actions with EDA can be
described by the following formula.
1. First you select or define
an archive template
2. Then you create a drawing archive using this template
3. Now import your drawings into the archive.
Job done! Everything is now organized.
Daily management of your
drawings will now be much more efficient. With help of EDA you
can edit attached drawings tags, view, edit or plot your
drawings.
Archive templates
Normally users of archiving
software would describe field by field the data structure of an
archive. But EDA keeps everything simplistic - it supplies the
user with predefined archive templates. A template is a prepared
archive structure definition, suitable for specific application
e.g. mechanical, architectural and others. Archives created with
the same template have the same structure. EDA allows the user
to create, use and share templates.
Drawings Import
EDA has three different methods
of document import:
1. The user can select documents and folders containing
documents and make EDA import them
2. EDA has a "Virtual Scanner". Wide format scanners
output files into a predefined folder. Virtual Scanner
"scans" this folder and if a new file appears, EDA
imports the new file into the archive automatically
3. To use RasterID as EDA's archive data provider. This is the
most efficient way to have one solution for scanning and
archiving large amount of documents
Drawings Filtering
To find a desired document
efficiently is a must for each archiving solution. EDA supplies
a simple and powerful drawings query mechanism. User query forms
a filter which selects one drawing or a set of drawings matching
the search criteria. Filter settings are storable and can be
reused later.
View
The embedded viewer can display
files in many drawing formats. The viewer lists thumbnails and
the selected drawing is offered in a large preview pane. Users
can use different zooms and pan on raster, vector or hybrid - a
combination of raster and vector drawings. Supported raster
single and/or multi-page formats are: TIFF, CALS, RLC, JPG, BMP,
PCX, C4, TG4, CIT, MrSID and PDF. Vector formats are: CWS, VCx
(both are Consistent Software's proprietary formats), DWG, DXF,
EMF, WMF, HPGL and PLT.
Plot
It takes time to fine tune plot
output from an archive when it contains files of many different
raster and vector formats. EDA utilizes Plot Templates to ease
this task. Plot Template can be defined once and reused as often
as the user needs. All individual plot parameter definitions can
be stored and reused at will. Just select the drawings from the
archive and apply a Plot Template. A subset of your archive can
be plotted with one click!
Optional: integration with
RasterID
EDA can be integrated with
RasterID. Combined with EDA RasterID becomes a solution for
in-house copy shops and scanning bureaus. It delivers RasterID's
scanning, image processing and indexing functionality together
with the drawing archive functionality of EDA. RasterID with EDA
allows users to:
1. Scan
2. Store
3. Manage
4. Retrieve
5. View
6. Print
Working inside just one environment
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